Genetic studies confirm that the Black Death was a strain of the bubonic plague making its way through Europe with outbreaks in trade hubs.

The Discovery Institute needs a scapegoat for everything wrong with the world today. And surprise, surprise, it's always Darwin's fault.

UK musicians Pig With The Face Of A Boy put together a fantastic nod to Russian history.

Peer review, long seen as a feature of any scientific endeavor, is actually a fairly new idea. And you wouldn't believe the stuff that got published as science before it was put in place...

An analysis of King Tutankhamun's DNA confirms he's the son of Akhenaten and brings the short, unpleasant history of his reign into focus.

If we ever ended up in the past, it's tempting to think our modern skills would make us rich and famous. But putting those skills to use centuries ago is trickier than it sounds...

Scientology is a dangerous cult ran by abusive people. But UFO religions in general might be the future of organized faith on Earth.

A theologian claims that the God of the Old Testament is just one deity who separated us from writhing, shapeless monsters. Don't expect his colleagues or mainstream believers to care much about his treatise.

Of all the sins that worry the religious right, lust, in the form of pornography, seems to dominate their every other waking thought.

After Stalin's crackdowns were over, the USSR was a lot less hostile to religion than Americans are often taught.

Every year, Russia celebrates the first human flight into space, but not how, or why, you might think...

Some things are objectively evil. Others? Not so much...

How to view history through the prism of the No True Scotsman fallacy.

Ancient alien claims often rely on a single flawed assumption: that our ancestors couldn't be engineers and scientist in their own right.

How passionate letters become books, and books become sacred texts.